Re: [sunxacml-devl] public maven repository containing sunxacml-2.0-M1

[Lennart J. <li...@rt...>]

Am 06.08.2010 um 22:04 schrieb Kaleb Pederson:

> On Friday, August 06, 2010 12:15:59 pm Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>> On 08/06/2010 03:07 PM, Kaleb Pederson wrote:
>>> On Friday, July 30, 2010 11:47:31 am Lennart Jütte wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> The big change was on how to reference the m2 repo in other projects as
>>>>> you posted below. Thanks very much!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> But Kaleb is right: a project shouldn't reference a mirror directly. Maybe there's a better solution?
>>>> 
>>> Just a couple of days ago I stumbled across a project that was using svn to host their maven repository. They just created a "mavenrepo" directory along side branches and trunk.  Although it seems a bit strange, it is functional.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> That would be much worse than referencing a mirror IMHO.
> 
> I don't think it's a good solution either, I just referenced it as an additional option since I hadn't seen anybody reference my original suggestion of using SF's web hosting.

Oh, i didn't even see this suggestion or forgot about it just after reading.

+1!

> 
>> I think we 
>> could simply use a variable with a default value referencing one mirror 
>> and anyone can override it to use as a different mirror.
> 
> I'm coming from the point of view of typical developer who only needs a binary.  That developer likely already has a pom to which he just needs to add a dependency (and maybe a repository). In that case, providing a pom with a variable doesn't really help
> 
> Is there a reason not to use SF's web hosting to host the maven repository? Using their web hosting you can manage all the uploads with ssh/scp using ssh keys and it acts as a standard web server, which is all that maven needs.
> 
> --Kaleb
> 
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